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Hanging piece

A hanging piece is left without a defender. The tactic is to take it, or to threaten it in a way that wins more than the piece itself.

Scan for unprotected pieces before you look for a deep combination. A hanging queen or rook is the whole puzzle more often than it looks.

Source database: 224,023 puzzles with this tag. This trainer: 180.

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Puzzle rating 760 · played 8,842 times in the source set

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Solved in a row: 0. The next puzzle stays near rating 1,400.

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beginner63,148 in the source database · 36 on the page easy54,031 in the source database · 36 on the page intermediate50,015 in the source database · 36 on the page hard36,878 in the source database · 36 on the page expert19,951 in the source database · 36 on the page